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Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Roger Shaw Nazi Long Range Guns and Bombers j Blast Great Britain's Southeast Coast; Mussolini Seeks Greek Naval Bases; Japs Push English Out of Shanghai (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion! are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) L . .'Released by Western Newspaper Union. 1 ITT) - ztJkA krtt$r Pictured above is the United Stales representation on the joint Canadian-American Defense Board now meeting in Ottawa and working out preliminary steps in planning hemisphere defense measures. This photo was taken as the board met with President Roosevelt before proceeding to Canada. Members of the group (reading left to right) are: (Back row) Capt. Harry W. Hill, Lieut. Col. Joseph T. McNarney, Capt. Forrest P. Sherman, Lieut. Gen. Stanley D. Embick, John D. Hickerson. (Front) Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York City, chairman of the board' and President Roosevelt, seated. WHAT THEN? and Hoiv People began to wonder whether Russia might eventually enter the war on the British imperial side. Critics thought it may be likely, if the war dragged on long enough and it might. Stalin fears Hitler and Mussolini in the Balkans, and wants to keep his rich Ukrainian province, the No. 2 Russian federal state. But if the Soviets helped England, Eng-land, whither America? It became a moot question. For strong American business groups hated the communism of Russia, while even stronger religious reli-gious groups hated the Soviet atheism. athe-ism. Would these people co-operate with an England that boasted a red, red ally. That was the point. Or, if Russia became an English CAMPAIGN: Squabbles? Willkie found that his ardent supporters sup-porters consisted of two groups: the independent Willkie clubs, and the dissident Willkie Democrats. His less ardent supporters were a good deal more basic. They consisted of the Republican party regulars, in and out of congress. The regulars were grumbling like Napoleon's Old Guard before Moscow. Willkie himself is an ex-Democrat and very independent of the regulars regu-lars in his ways and habits. He is disinclined to lean on the Old Guard, although the Old Guard begs to be leaned against. Old Guardisti com- THE WAR: Long Range Long-range German guns, posted in France along the channel shore, banged away at England, not so many miles away. These were the famous Big Berthas of song and story, but they failed at first to prove much. They shot at ship convoys, but their bore wore out quickly, and they were clumsy and expensive. In the last war, the famous German "Paris gun" was a waste of time, and these promised to be the same. Their objective, of course, was to cut across the channel, and close it tight as a drum. This maneuver failed to worry the increasingly cheerful' British. ally, would we start to pamper the American Communists, who would also be the alhes of Mr. Churchill? Spain, Too Then again it appeared extremely extreme-ly probable that General Franco's Spain might go. in on the German side. What then? Franco is the idol of the ruling class in Spanish America because he saved the Spanish Span-ish church and crushed the Spanish reds. If our state department started start-ed to razz Franco, the ally of Hitler, Hit-ler, the South Americans would be infuriated. Then, what would happen hap-pen to Secretary Hull's "good neighbor" neigh-bor" policy? Franco is also a special spe-cial favorite of the Vatican. If Franco joined the Germans, what effect would that have on the American Amer-ican faithful? Would they not be- plained that the candidate was too casual about consulting and obeyingthem. obey-ingthem. Then again, many of the O. G. are isolation-minded, while the independents and Democratic refugees are inclined, like Willkie himself, to be interventionists. Despite De-spite all the Hoosier getup, Willkie definitely, they said, has an eastern outlook (and maybe he has). Some of the regulars, too, thought that "their man" Willkie was too New Dealish. He did not denounce many of the Roosevelt reforms, but adopted them in principle. He merely promised to "improve" the administration of what the regulars thought was a racket. In fact, the New Dealers said that Willkie was substantially, "their man," too! This made the regulars the O. G. huffier than ever. In their first air attack on Berlin, British bombers swooped out of a night sky directly over the heart of the city, were driven off by antiaircraft anti-aircraft fire and dropped their explosives ex-plosives on the city's outskirts. The German aerial losses had been terrific, well over 1,000 planes, and maybe many more of them. The land invasion threat appeared to be "out" for dictators cannot risk the chance of a bloody setback or repulse, especially one of so spectacular spec-tacular a nature. It seemed that the so quick-acting Germans were just a bit puzzled about what to do next They continued to tighten their blockade of the British Isles by land and sea and air. The British banged back, by bombing the Heinkel, Messer-schmitt, Messer-schmitt, Junkers and Dornier airplane air-plane works, and the Zeppelin works on Lake Constance, where the fa. come increasingly isolationist' They would still dislike Hitler, of course, but they could hardly help but admire the great Spanish crusader cru-sader of 1936-39-the conqueror of Moscow-in-Barcelona. The whole subject was worth detailed American Amer-ican pondering: From Washington to Wala Wala and Yonkers. POLAND: 1 Tyranny There was more German tyranny m conquered Poland. The iron military mil-itary heel was crushing down old Polish customs and ways of life There came a new decree, of an un heard of nature. It rocked the steppes, the towns, the metropoli It was this: Every taxicab driver in Warsaw and Cracow, Poland's No. 1 and No. 2 cities, must shave at least F . D. Bonaparte F. D. Roosevelt-Bonaparte found himself in the same position as Napoleon, Na-poleon, in the decisive year 1815. Bonaparte proper had then served two terms, and he wanted a third one. His first term had lasted for 14 years. Then came Elba. His second term lasted 100 days. Then came Waterloo. But the point was this: Bonaparte (like Roosevelt) depended de-pended on the proletariat, as against the economic royalists and Bourbons. Bour-bons. The French proletariat hated the Napoleonic conscription like poison, poi-son, and many .Vnerican proletarians proletari-ans dislike the prospect of conscrip-tion, conscrip-tion, too. But regardless of their anti-conscript attitude, the French plebs rallied round Napoleon because be-cause they feared the Bourbons would repeal all the Napoleonic m. mous Mercedes-Benz air motors are manufactured. Other big industrial plants, in the Germanies, "got" it too, and German nerves (like those of the Americans) are nowhere near as good as stolid Britannic neurology. neurol-ogy. It began to look like a much longer war, which did not help Will-kie's Will-kie's chances for the presidency any. Italics The Italians continued to bully the Greeks, in quest of Greek naval bases to use against England in the Eastern Mediterranean. Greece was tied to Turkey, Russia, and England in one way or another, and all three of them expressed interest inter-est and sympathy. Would the war spread still further, the critics wondered? won-dered? Would Greece turn into an Italic Finland? Meanwhile, the Italians Ital-ians took British Somaliland on the Red sea, in an effort to cut the ocean route between England and her treasure-house of India. The British Brit-ish garrison got away, by flight and skill, as it had done already at Narvik, Nar-vik, Dunkirk, and elsewhere. They said it was another "moral victory" for the Bullmen. All England had had in Somaliland was some South Africans, the local camel corps (partly mechanized, partly camelled, cam-elled, partly horsed), and a section of the ubiquitous royal air force. I The R. A. F., as usual, gave a good account of itself. Not so, the cam-ellaries. cam-ellaries. The Italians-in-Africa didn't look so good either, although they were in there fighting and making mak-ing the usual big noise (so the critics crit-ics declared, en masse). cial reforms. The American plebs against conscription though they may be, have the same attitude They fear that if the "Bourbons" recapture the White House, even though they would scrap conscription, conscrip-tion, they might also scrap the Roosevelt reformation. Hence the man in the street is for Roosevelt-Bonaparte. Roosevelt-Bonaparte. DEAD: R. I. P. did. Sir Oliver Lodge of England was one of them. He was the great scientist mental telepathist and spiritualist He was 89, and much beloved by everybody in all countries. coun-tries. Then there was Leon Trotsky or Comrade Braunstein. He was the organizer of the Red army, the bril liant author, the mortal foe of Stalin Hitler, Churchill, and others. other day. The edict declared that t was just as important for cab-drivers cab-drivers to curry themselves as for these cabbies to curry and groom the good old dobbins. Here was an example of the usual combination German oppression and German cleanliness. merman BIG: Bomber The .biggest airplane ever built is ertv of tnSe " Wi" be Property Prop-erty of the army air corps. The Douglas air factory near 5 7 Monica, Calif., has been . nta on it for fours eVe7;k Project is astonishing. Whle This giant plane can r t York to EuroV bafloyrrYNor: again, and then out to Calff all non-stop. U win have'L horsepower engines a win ' 0 of 212 feet, and ll2 Vei "! Spread Chamberlain Old Chamberlain was on the way I out, in politics, and so were Duff Cooper, the stylish propaganda expert ex-pert Sir Kingsley Wood, the budget maker, and Cockney Herbert Morrison, Mor-rison, the economic bigshot. (Llovd George, who won the last war, was on his way in. they said.) Lord Halifax, a Chamberlain partner, the one-armed foreign minister, was fading away, and the Laborite Hugh Dalton was scheduled for his ticklish job. He was pickaxed by a "good friend, down Mexico way. Every body blamed it on Stalin and his dread secret Gestapo, but this was really rather unlikely. Trotsky was no longer of enough importance to pester, and Stalin is no fool, or time waster. There was also the notable Max Steuer that.died. He was New York city's best-known lawyer-thoueh not its best-loved legalist. Senator Wagner of New York indicated that he was such a philanthropist ard humanitarian, but many peopie shook their heads. SHOES: In la France done this way: oui, oui' t 35 Publique standardized a'd hned its totalitarian f ? slream-was slream-was to be a s tann , tWCar- factured I Vgh size " m;,nu" the only ot 5" il "ill market. This wm on tl,e Production costs, ,0 reta511 and speed up production ? Pr,'Cl:a-out Pr,'Cl:a-out all the foot-frin"' U wai cut sienne, of yeslr yr ' h Pari" |
